Two teams have played the Super Bowl in their home market: In both cases, the stadium in which the Super Bowl was held was perceived to be a better stadium for a large, high-profile event than the stadiums the Rams and 49ers were playing in at the time; this situation has not arisen since , in part because the league has traditionally awarded the Super Bowl in modern times to the newest stadiums.

There have been a few instances where the league has rescinded the Super Bowl from cities. Super Bowl XLIX in was originally given to Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri , but after two sales taxes failed to pass at the ballot box, and opposition by local business leaders and politicians increased, Kansas City eventually withdrew its request to host the game.

The location of the Super Bowl is chosen by the NFL well in advance, usually three to five years before the game.

Cities place bids to host a Super Bowl and are evaluated in terms of stadium renovation and their ability to host. Some of the host requirements include:.

The NFL owners meet to make a selection on the site, usually three to five years prior to the event. The league rescinded this privilege in and will make all decisions regarding hosting sites from Super Bowl LVII onward; the league will choose a potential venue unilaterally, the chosen team will put together a hosting proposal, and the league will vote upon it to determine if it is acceptable.

The designated " home team " alternates between the NFC team in odd-numbered games and the AFC team in even-numbered games. Regardless of being the home or away team of record, each team has their team logo and wordmark painted in one of the end zones.

Originally, the designated home team had to wear their colored jerseys, which resulted in Dallas donning their less exposed dark blue jerseys for Super Bowl V.

While most of the home teams in the Super Bowl have chosen to wear their colored jerseys, there have been six 6 exceptions: The Cowboys, since , have worn white jerseys at home.

The Redskins wore white at home under coach Joe Gibbs starting in through , continued by Richie Petitbon and Norv Turner through , then again when Gibbs returned from through Meanwhile, the Steelers, who have always worn their black jerseys at home since the AFL—NFL merger in , opted for the white jerseys after winning three consecutive playoff games on the road, wearing white.

During the pairing of Bill Belichick and Tom Brady , New England has mostly worn their blue jerseys for home games, but have worn white for a home game in the , , and seasons.

No team has yet worn a third jersey or Color Rush uniform for the Super Bowl. A total of 26 different stadiums, six of which no longer exist and one of which does not yet exist, either have hosted or are scheduled to host Super Bowls.

Stadium is now demolished. Miami Gardens became a city in Before that, the stadium had a Miami address while in unincorporated Florida.

Future Super Bowls, also denoted by italics. Stadium is under construction. The game has never been played in a region that lacked an NFL or AFL franchise, [ citation needed ] though London, England has occasionally been mentioned as a host city for a Super Bowl in the near future.

Eastern Time start would result in the game beginning at In reaction to the letters, many Vegas resorts, rather than discontinue the popular and lucrative parties, started referring to them as "Big Game Parties".

In , the NFL made an attempt to trademark "The Big Game" as well; however, it withdrew the application in due to growing commercial and public-relations opposition to the move, mostly from Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley and their fans, as the Stanford Cardinal football and California Golden Bears football teams compete in the Big Game , which has been played since 28 years before the formation of the NFL and 75 years before Super Bowl I.

Like the other major professional leagues in the United States, the winner of the Super Bowl is usually declared "world champions", a title that has been mocked by non-American journalists.

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The stadium got its name from the fact that the game played there was part of the Tournament of Roses and that it was shaped like a bowl, much like the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Connecticut.

By the time the first Super Bowl was played, the term "bowl" for any major American football game was well established. Hunt later said the name was likely in his head because his children had been playing with a Super Ball toy; [11] a vintage example of the ball is on display at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton , Ohio.

The champions of the two conferences would play each other in the Super Bowl. The winning team receives the Vince Lombardi Trophy , named after the coach of the Green Bay Packers , who won the first two Super Bowl games and three of the five preceding NFL championships in , , and The first trophy awarded under the new name was presented to the Baltimore Colts following their win in Super Bowl V in Miami.

The Super Bowl is currently played on the first Sunday in February. This is due to the current NFL schedule which consists of the opening weekend of the season being held immediately after Labor Day the first Monday in September , the week regular season where teams each play 16 games and have one bye , the first three rounds of the playoffs , and the Super Bowl two weeks after the two Conference Championship Games, which is the next week after the Pro Bowl.

The date of the Super Bowl can thus be determined from the date of the preceding Labor Day. For example, Labor Day in occurred on September 7; therefore the next Super Bowl was scheduled exactly five months later on February 7, Originally, the game took place in early to mid-January.

For Super Bowl I there was only one round of playoffs: The addition of two playoff rounds first in and then in , an increase in regular season games from 14 to 16 , and the establishment of one bye-week per team have caused the Super Bowl to be played later.

Partially offsetting these season-lengthening effects, simultaneous with the addition of two regular season games in , the season was started earlier.

Prior to , the season started as late as September Now, since Labor Day is always the first Monday of September, September 13 is the latest possible date for the first full Sunday set of games Since , the regular season has started with the Kickoff Game on the first Thursday after Labor Day.

The earliest possible season start date is September 7. Eight teams have appeared in Super Bowl games without a win.

The Minnesota Vikings were the first team to have appeared a record four times without a win. The Buffalo Bills played in a record four Super Bowls in a row and lost every one.

Detroit, Houston, and Jacksonville, however, have hosted a Super Bowl, leaving the Browns the only team to date who has neither played in nor whose city has hosted the game.

The selections in that class have been considered the best by any pro franchise ever, as Pittsburgh selected four future Hall of Famers, the most for any team in any sport in a single draft.

The Steelers were the first team to win three and then four Super Bowls and appeared in six AFC Championship Games during the decade, making the playoffs in eight straight seasons.

Nine players and three coaches and administrators on the team have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Pittsburgh still remains the only team to win back-to-back Super Bowls twice and four Super Bowls in a six-year period.

Their team won Super Bowl XX in dominant fashion. Following several seasons with poor records in the s, the Dallas Cowboys rose back to prominence in the s.

During this decade, the Cowboys made post-season appearances every year except for the seasons of and From to , the Cowboys won their division championship each year.

In this same period, the Buffalo Bills had made their mark reaching the Super Bowl for a record four consecutive years, only to lose all four.

All three of these players went to the Hall of Fame. The back-to-back victories heralded a change in momentum in which AFC teams would win nine out of 12 Super Bowls.

In contrast, the NFC saw a different representative in the Super Bowl every season from through The tense game came down to the final play in which Tennessee had the opportunity to tie the game and send it to overtime.

The Titans nearly pulled it off, but the tackle of receiver Kevin Dyson by linebacker Mike Jones kept the ball out of the end zone by a matter of inches.

The Ravens defeated the Giants by the score of 34—7. The New England Patriots became the dominant team throughout the early s, winning the championship three out of four years early in the decade.

They would become only the second team in the history of the NFL to do so after the s Dallas Cowboys. Brady would go on to win the MVP award for this game.

In the season , the Patriots became the fourth team in NFL history to have a perfect unbeaten and untied regular season record, the second in the Super Bowl era after the Miami Dolphins, and the first to finish 16—0.

The s have seen parity between the two conferences, but not within them. Von Miller dominated, totaling 2. The Super Bowls of the late s and s are notable for the performances and the pedigrees of several of the participating quarterbacks, and stagnation especially on the AFC side in repeated appearances by the same teams and players.

The Super Bowl is one of the most watched annual sporting events in the world, with viewership overwhelmingly domestic. This means that on average, more than million people from the United States alone are tuned into the Super Bowl at any given moment.

The halftime show was the most watched ever with Ratings for that game, a San Francisco victory over Cincinnati, may have been aided by a large blizzard that had affected much of the northeastern United States on game day, leaving residents to stay at home more than usual.

Since , the Super Bowl has begun between 6: ABC is not currently in the rotation for Super Bowl broadcasts.

Super Bowls I—VI were blacked out in the television markets of the host cities, due to league restrictions then in place. The Super Bowl provides an extremely strong lead-in to programming following it on the same channel, the effects of which can last for several hours.

Because of this strong coattail effect, the network that airs the Super Bowl typically takes advantage of the large audience to air an episode of a hit series, or to premiere the pilot of a promising new one in the lead-out slot, which immediately follows the Super Bowl and post-game coverage.

But it was just like, this is the year. Bands of our generation, you can sort of be seen on a stage like this or, like, not seen.

It is a tremendous venue. Early Super Bowls featured a halftime show consisting of marching bands from local colleges or high schools ; but as the popularity of the game increased, a trend where popular singers and musicians performed during its pre-game ceremonies and the halftime show , or simply sang the national anthem of the United States or America the Beautiful emerged.

They approached Michael Jackson , whose performance the following year drew higher figures than the game itself.

In an effort to prevent a repeat of the incident, the NFL held a moratorium on Super Bowl halftime shows featuring pop performers, and instead invited a single, headlining veteran act, such as Paul McCartney , The Who , Prince , and Bruce Springsteen.

No market or region without an active NFL franchise has ever hosted a Super Bowl, and the presence of an NFL team in a market or region is now a de jure requirement for bidding on the game.

No team has ever played the Super Bowl in its home stadium. Two teams have played the Super Bowl in their home market: In both cases, the stadium in which the Super Bowl was held was perceived to be a better stadium for a large, high-profile event than the stadiums the Rams and 49ers were playing in at the time; this situation has not arisen since , in part because the league has traditionally awarded the Super Bowl in modern times to the newest stadiums.

There have been a few instances where the league has rescinded the Super Bowl from cities. Super Bowl XLIX in was originally given to Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri , but after two sales taxes failed to pass at the ballot box, and opposition by local business leaders and politicians increased, Kansas City eventually withdrew its request to host the game.

The location of the Super Bowl is chosen by the NFL well in advance, usually three to five years before the game. Cities place bids to host a Super Bowl and are evaluated in terms of stadium renovation and their ability to host.

Some of the host requirements include:. The NFL owners meet to make a selection on the site, usually three to five years prior to the event.

The league rescinded this privilege in and will make all decisions regarding hosting sites from Super Bowl LVII onward; the league will choose a potential venue unilaterally, the chosen team will put together a hosting proposal, and the league will vote upon it to determine if it is acceptable.

The designated " home team " alternates between the NFC team in odd-numbered games and the AFC team in even-numbered games.

Regardless of being the home or away team of record, each team has their team logo and wordmark painted in one of the end zones.

Originally, the designated home team had to wear their colored jerseys, which resulted in Dallas donning their less exposed dark blue jerseys for Super Bowl V.

While most of the home teams in the Super Bowl have chosen to wear their colored jerseys, there have been six 6 exceptions: The Cowboys, since , have worn white jerseys at home.

The Redskins wore white at home under coach Joe Gibbs starting in through , continued by Richie Petitbon and Norv Turner through , then again when Gibbs returned from through Meanwhile, the Steelers, who have always worn their black jerseys at home since the AFL—NFL merger in , opted for the white jerseys after winning three consecutive playoff games on the road, wearing white.

During the pairing of Bill Belichick and Tom Brady , New England has mostly worn their blue jerseys for home games, but have worn white for a home game in the , , and seasons.

No team has yet worn a third jersey or Color Rush uniform for the Super Bowl. A total of 26 different stadiums, six of which no longer exist and one of which does not yet exist, either have hosted or are scheduled to host Super Bowls.

Stadium is now demolished. Miami Gardens became a city in Before that, the stadium had a Miami address while in unincorporated Florida. Future Super Bowls, also denoted by italics.

Stadium is under construction. The game has never been played in a region that lacked an NFL or AFL franchise, [ citation needed ] though London, England has occasionally been mentioned as a host city for a Super Bowl in the near future.

Eastern Time start would result in the game beginning at In reaction to the letters, many Vegas resorts, rather than discontinue the popular and lucrative parties, started referring to them as "Big Game Parties".

In , the NFL made an attempt to trademark "The Big Game" as well; however, it withdrew the application in due to growing commercial and public-relations opposition to the move, mostly from Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley and their fans, as the Stanford Cardinal football and California Golden Bears football teams compete in the Big Game , which has been played since 28 years before the formation of the NFL and 75 years before Super Bowl I.

Like the other major professional leagues in the United States, the winner of the Super Bowl is usually declared "world champions", a title that has been mocked by non-American journalists.

The practice by the U. The phrase is still engraved on the Super Bowl rings. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This section is in a list format that may be better presented using prose.

You can help by converting this section to prose, if appropriate. Editing help is available. Retrieved 23 May Archived from the original on December 2, Retrieved January 31, Green Bay Packers II: New York Jets IV: Kansas City Chiefs V: San Francisco 49ers XX: San Francisco 49ers XXV: San Francisco 49ers XXX: New England Patriots XL: New England Patriots Portal Super Bowl Sunday Curse.

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